Jeremiah 36:17 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 36:17

“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

KJV

And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

What they wished to know was, whether what Baruch had read to them was written by him from memory after hearing Jeremiah repeating his prophecies continuously, or accurately from the prophet's own dictation.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֶ֨ת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בָּר֔וּךְ	ba.Rukh	Baruch	H1263 →
שָׁאֲל֖וּ	sha.'a.Lu	they asked	H7592 →
לֵאמֹ֑ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
הַגֶּד־	ha.ged-	tell	H5046 →
נָ֣א	na'	please	H4994 →
לָ֔נוּ	La.nu	to <the> us
אֵ֗יךְ	'Eikh	how?	H349 →
כָּתַ֛בְתָּ	ka.Tav.ta	did you write	H3789 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַדְּבָרִ֥ים	ha.de.va.Rim	the words	H1697 →
הָאֵ֖לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
מִפִּֽיו׃	mi.Piv	from mouth his	H6310 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 9:15
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
leads to
- John 9:10–11
  “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
- John 9:26–27
  “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”